Greater New Orleans

Elizabeth Trist Urquhart: Diving into life

After studying this fall in Buenos Aires, Elizabeth Trist Urquhart will return to the University of the South, where she is a junior majoring in anthropology and minoring in Spanish. She's pledge trainer for Phi Kappa Epsilon sorority, a Sewanee outing program leader, an Arcadian campus tour guide and a member of the Order of the Gownsmen academic honor society. She also is on the Sewanee diving team, and has been an NCAA regional finalist in 3-meter springboard competition. Elizabeth is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Quentin Fisk Urquhart Jr., her mother the former Anne Hartwell of Denver.

PATTI PERRET PHOTOGRAPHYElizabeth Trist Urquhart

A graduate of Isidore Newman School, she played varsity soccer, track and softball, participated in the sports medicine program, belonged to Hi-Y, and volunteered for Habitat for Humanity and ARC.

Elizabeth's hobbies are photography, traveling, skydiving and rafting. She has worked as a lifeguard and camp counselor and was a marketing intern for Jefferson Dollars for Scholars.

As a sub-deb, she was a lieutenant in Les Pierrettes, a maid in the court of Apollo and a princess in the Grand Ball of Osiris.

Elizabeth will be honored with three other debs at a late December party hosted by their parents.